Nov 30 Resources

We watched a video that featured several powerful resources: Women and Girls in the Developing World: (the video we watched) http://fora.tv/2009/09/21/Empowering_Women_and_Girls_in_the_Developing_World

http://www.viewchange.org/videos/where-the-water-meets-the-sky

Janera.com the hosts of this conversation (web based company "women" committed to rethinking how to "curate a global conversation' - They are really rethinking the relationship between thoughtful community and its mediations: their voice, medias and the creation of change: http://janera.com/

Fora.tv is media (television) also rethinking the relationship between technology and voice. : through rethinking the relationship of tv and empowerment and its broadcasting opportunities: such exciting things they are enabling particularly in markets that have not been able to have "voice" because of broadcasting challenges (thus women from many different vantage points) . Check them out: http://fora.tv

Half the Sky: A book - work site - movement organized via the book that hopes to help us rethink how men and women together can rethink and empower basic change for women world wide - and rethinking the strategies for doing so: (it is an awesome movement - check it out!) http://www.halftheskymovement.org/

CAMFED: the organization begun and supported by speaker Ann Cotton to assist women in Zimbabwe and (now other developing countries), though educational access, empowerment and support: http://us.camfed.org

Also consider checking out the documentary they have produced: Where the Water Meets the Sky

(and thank you Susan for chasing this one down) Kiva: the organization that is rethinking how to support women world wide through rethinking how to connect support sites - and persons needing and offering support: http://www.kiva.org/Global nomads: Remember at the end of the talk a man stood up and discussed how he was working to empower these kinds of conversations and concerns with youth: http://www.gng.org/

Alissa Everett: (took the photos we could not see of the women in the Congo - who recovering from terrible rapes - had found ways to heal and recreate their lives: This is her blog: http://alissaeverett.com/blog/